11.   Any agreement would be subject to due diligence, an intensive review of finances, board and shareholder approval, and regulatory approval, the companies said.

12.   As a result, some people received two Visors and some shipments were simply not made, the company said.

13.   Any increase in jobs, the company said, will depend on public acceptance of the new products.

14.   As one person sewed a seam, another pulled the yards and yards of fabric off the machine, the company said.

15.   As it turned out, rising lumber prices were virtually offset by lower prices in other goods, the company said.

16.   At the start of the third quarter, waste paper were extremely high and margins narrowed, the company said.

17.   Bijur also said the company and four current and former executives are subjects of a federal grand jury investigation.

18.   Both the U.S. and the U.K. said companies have approached them to develop new Internet enforcement technology, but they would not say which companies.

19.   Boyd left to start his own money management firm with Derek Felske, a fund manager who left American Century Investments in July, the company said.

20.   A BTR official who asked not to be identified confirmed that the Financial Times article was accurate and said the company would likely announce an agreement Thursday.